College is one of the most common American dreams on the path to success. Getting there is only half the battle. Once there you will find that it is a whole new way of life where you must learn self discipline and the art of choosing wisely. This article can help you do just that and to avoid some of the pitfalls that...…
Think about your life after college. While it is tempting to get to college and think of it as your own little world, one day you will have to leave. Make sure that e...…
I have wanted to go to college since I was twelve; I believed it would be exciting to go to school as an adult. When I became a teenager I thought I had decided that I wanted to be a school teacher, but as we grow these things change. I then attempted college for something completely different but was unable to finish due to tragic circumstances. Now at twenty-six years old I have found what I truly want to do with my life. I took a career interest profiler, a program that provides you with possible occupations that match your interests. After taking the profiler, I find I may slightly disagree. However, my results did show me new things about myself I did not know. From these results, I have created some SMART goals to help achieve my ultimate goal.…
One of the first major steps to becoming a successful adult these days is receiving a college education. A college degree today is viewed as a necessity rather than just a place where students go to explore and expand the mind. Nonetheless it’s slowly becoming an unreachable goal for most people. It has become widely known that the cost of college has been rising the last few decades and continues to rise, and the rates will only continue to of increase. As the cost of college rises, families have to either change their way of life to be fortunate enough to send their children to college or take out extensive amount of loans. When the time comes to talk about college, a large number of questions arise. Even though there are many questions,…
Today, many students like myself all over the America have walked down the hectic aisles of high school and have sat in some of the largest lecture halls in college. As kids, we were somewhat taught that going to school and getting an education would be the key to our success and thought that if we didn’t fulfill these expectations, we would end up homeless and live a terrible life. For so many years during my educational career this was the mentality that I believed in. Although this may be over exaggerated, I believe that this may hold some truth to the many college students all over the world. It is almost like we volunteer to go into debt and deal with all the stress that a college education brings us because we feel like it will get us…
College is a chance to pursue higher education; it is a chance to discover new interests and passions—to find yourself. Finding yourself can be achieved through a liberal arts education or through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). There is a choice of focus coming to college, liberal arts or STEM. State schools, like Montana State, or possibly other institutions require a core curriculum, exposing students to every field. Excellent Sheep written by William Deresiewicz explains the importance of a liberal arts education, how it is a self-cultivation journey, but fails to acknowledge the importance of STEM in self-discovery. Deresiewicz also claims success and happiness are not simultaneously possible in STEM fields. Success and happiness are possible in STEM fields and a liberal arts education can help achieve both.…
Each year in late spring to early summer thousands of young people graduate from high school and are looking forward to attending college. Some have chosen their colleges, are already packed and ready to go off to school and accomplish their dreams. Others are late bloomers, just starting to look at their opportunities after high school graduation. Whichever type they are, they all have one thing in common, they are dreaming big and are ready to go and tackle their future because they all know their options are limitless. However, on the contrary there are thousands of students that graduate each year, that albeit they may have dreams just as big as their former classmates will never know what it is like to attend a college or even to visit college campuses.…
I started my first year of college with my life all planned out. I had this ridicules idea that everything was going to be a piece of cake. I was going to join different clubs, do lots of research, make the dean’s list and most of all make my parents proud. Now that I really think about it what in the world was I thinking, I realized that college is an entirely different universe then high school. My GPA dropped for the first time in my life from a 3.7 in high school to a 2.8. The drop in my GPA made me hunger to go to medical school even more, before my life academic in the sense that there were no challenges or obstacles that I really faced in high school. However, when I entered college I was faced with lots of hurdles academically and emotionally that opened my eyes and made my desire burn more to obtain my goals in life.…
In the 21st century, many high school students don’t obtain higher education, because they question themselves on the benefits and time consuming of getting higher education. Important questions like: “Why should I go to college? Will be waste of my time and investment? Students are thinking in ways that discourage them from choosing to go to college leading them to ignore the importance of education. College allows students to explore different perspective such as to exploring academia, different career choices, experience, building skills, exploring different jobs, but most of all it is a self-exploration.…
When an average high schooler walks into senior year, the students are quickly bombarded by school counselors discussing which four year college they should apply too. At my high school, it was never second guessed whether the student would be attending college but was assumed. Most people have misconceptions that if they do not get a degree, they will unable to obtain a job and have an overall unsuccessful life. In Charles Murray’s, “Are Too Many People Going to College” and Freeman Hrabowski’s “College Prepares People for Life”, the two author both discuss the education system we have in place, however, Charles Murray provides a more convincing argument that college, contrary to popular belief, is just not for everyone.…
It’s easy to make a goal rather than to achieve it. However, with determination one can succeed in accomplishing it. I have accomplished one of many goals in my list and that's to attend college. In my family not a lot attended college or even finished high school, so accomplishing this goal is a big subject of matter to my family.Getting this far is even a big accomplishment in my eye’s, especially when you break free from an assembly line of generations that never had attended college. The feeling is still overwhelming, mainly because I’m the first of many generations in my family to accomplish something big like…
Some people go to college for the title for being a college student for others it’s a way to leave home and become independent without completely losing the financial help of their parents. Most go because they have to, not because they want to. High school students are constantly being pressured not only by family members but also by guidance counselors to go to college because it’s the “right thing to do.” We all have an idea of what we want in life, but we end up doing the opposite and doing what our “mentors” think is best for us, resulting in being miserable.…
To say that I dedicated numerous amounts of hours deciphering the purpose of why I’m going to college would be a lie. For years I have always thought that college is somewhere you just go after high school. I believed that it is only somewhere you go to start your career and in turn make a lot of money. In fact, this “purpose” is what has been institutionalized within U.S. citizens under this Capitalist system. We are told to go to college so we can get jobs where we can make money, buy a big house, start a family, and live the lifestyles we have always dreamed of. For a very long time this was my only goal in life: to go to college so I can get a well-paying job to afford the lifestyle that I want to live. I never put much thought into what…
I don't just want to graduate from a college rather I would learn to cope with challenges so I had never given up on any classes. I enrolled in a higher level class which met my major requirements and at the same time were hard. I am certain that in some way it reflects on my imagination and behavior. I am not a bright student, but I have never given up to learn and dream where I can do perfect things.…
All people have hopes and dreams. What one does with those hopes and dreams, separates them from every other person on the planet. It is a shame to just let them dissipate without acting upon them. But first, one needs to distinguish between what is a dream and what is an unrealized reality… Ever since I was a little boy, I knew I wanted to be a chef. Every career day at school, no matter who came to talk about their job, or what my friends dressed up as, or what was thought of as the “cool job”, I knew what I wanted to be. I wanted to make things for people that they could appreciate in a more filling way—pun intended. Taking college classes puts me one step closer to fulfilling my lifelong goal of becoming a chef.…